Active Together

Active Together is a pioneering service designed to help people with cancer prepare for and recover from treatment. This new approach to cancer treatment sees patients offered a combination of physical activity, nutrition and psychological wellbeing support before, during and after their treatment.

It is delivered by Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals with funding from Yorkshire Cancer Research.

Research shows that regular exercise, a healthy diet and good mental wellbeing before, during and after cancer treatment can help patients in many ways including:

• Being able to tolerate cancer treatment better
• Increased access to previously unsuitable treatments
• Fewer complications from surgery
• Feeling less tired and having a better mood
• Spending less days in hospital
• Less chance of the cancer coming back.

Active Together is currently accepting patients diagnosed with upper gastrointestinal (GI), colorectal and lung cancer who are receiving treatment in Sheffield. 

Patients will be referred to the programme through their Clinical Nurse Specialist. The programme does not accept self-referrals.